A/N: It has been a long time since I really sat and typed something up. I know I still have an un-complete story and another under development (which I promise to finish and get into), but after writing a few one shots I came up with this and felt it had some potential for a proper story. I am not guaranteeing regular updates since it will be very casual. This will be more of an outlet and practice if anything else. But I will try and keep in interesting for your benefit. :-)
Prologue: No time to reminisce
After Hallow Bastion's restoration, the town had never looked so beautiful and it as then, after its renaming, that the restoration committee disbanded. Everyone moved out of Merlin's small house and found places of their own. Cid moved into an apartment above a vacant shop where he opened a garage and became the town's only mechanic. Cloud and Aerith moved into a quaint house near Central Square where Cloud worked for the town's post in World Deliveries, while Aerith was expecting their first child. Merlin returned to Traverse in retirement, claiming life was slower paced over there and it was more to his liking. As for me, I stayed at Merlin's and made the place my own, having found work in local deliveries and odd jobs commissioned by the townsfolk. Leon however, had left before all of it had happened. After the final battle he disappeared, took one of Cid's Gummi Ships and fled, it seems, with not so much as a goodbye. I liked to think he couldn't stand saying goodbye and that he had a really good reason for leaving before everything truly finished and settled itself, but when a year turned into two and two turned into three, we all knew he wasn't coming back. And although I didn't want to let go of the hope I felt, life had gradually taken it all away, my questions and my sadness. Before I knew it, I found myself fully adjusted to life without him.